By our OSDW Reporter
OSDW – RECYCLING MOTHER NATURE’S ABUNDANT GIFT OF RAIN TO SAVE LIVES.
“For me, recycling rainwater is the best way to make a difference” — John Kyle, Donor.
RAIN can be a blessing and a curse. It causes disease and death when it forms disease-infested puddles kids drink from.
But the very same rainwater means life and health when caught and shared.
That’s our simple solution to polluted water.
Our tanks are simple, easy to maintain, have only one moving part — the faucet—and, best all, refill every time it rains. They also last for years.
Kids drink directly from the faucets, and clean, safe water is piped into school kitchens to cook the lunches.
Safe water comes first.
Medical treatment is a revolving door if they go back home and drink unsafe water.
Education is meaningless to those diseased by polluted water.
It all starts with safe drinking water.
Chronic dysentery and anemia often prevent indigenous kids from staying in school, perpetuating the cycle of poverty from one generation to another.
It all starts with safe drinking water.
THE QUESTION THAT LAUNCHED OPERATION SAFE DRINKING WATER
Why should children be sick or die from bad water where it rains a lot?
Our simple, low-cost solution is to catch and share the rainwater.
Tank installed by OSDW overflows ( see overflow pipe at top) as indigenous school kids wait for rain to stop.
Water holes set in low areas fill with run-off drainage of pollutants, human and animal waste and pollution. Yet, they're all many indigenous villages have.
During school hours, students drink from the faucet and the school kitchen uses safe water for the school lunch. After hours, people of the local community come to fill their buckets with safe water for use at home. When the tank gets low, one of the periodic rains can fill it to overflowing again.
You can provide a complete rain catchment system for an indigenous school for only $975.
It keeps on giving life and health for years to come..
Mothers watch as we pipe the water into the school kitchen. No more carrying buckets of doubtful water up hills. They use Mother Nature's finest recycled rainwater..
Safe water for kids to drink and mothers to cook their lunches.
Everything — life, health, survival — starts with safe drinking water.
Why not give the gift that never stops giving?
Donate a tank. Make a life-changing difference for an indigenous school and community.
Donate
Joe and Maribel Bass -- founders of Operation Safe Drinking Water.
They live in the islands among the people they serve.
OSDW is a 501 (c) (3) charity. We’re all volunteers. No one receives a salary or compensation.
Thank you, Eddy.
At the moment we are training and developing indigenous staff to work on a higher, more advanced leverl. In this way we feel we can contribute tot heir future success.
Again, thank you. You clearly have a lot to offer